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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| About the author | |
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| Credit list | |
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| Writing an Essay | |
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| Thinking About Purposes and Audiences | |
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| Planning and Shaping | |
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| Drafting and Revising | |
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| Writing Paragraphs | |
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| Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing | |
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| Writing Argument | |
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| Understanding Grammar and Writing Correct Sentences | |
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| Parts of Speech and Sentence Structures | |
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| Verbs | |
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| Case of Nouns and Pronouns | |
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| Pronoun Reference | |
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| Agreement | |
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| Using Adjectives and Adverbs | |
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| Sentence Fragments | |
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| Comma Splices and Run-Together Sentences | |
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| Awkward Sentences | |
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| Writing Effectively | |
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| Conciseness | |
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| Coordination and Subordination | |
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| Parallelism | |
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| Variety and Emphasis | |
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| Understanding the Meaning of Words | |
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| Understanding the Effect of Words | |
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| Spelling and Hyphenation | |
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| Using Punctuation and Mechanics | |
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| Periods, Question Marks, and Exclamation Points | |
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| Commas | |
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| Semicolons | |
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| Colons | |
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| Apostrophes | |
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| Quotation Marks | |
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| Other Punctuation Marks | |
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| Capitals, Italics, Abbreviations, and Numbers | |
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| Writing Research | |
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| Using Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism | |
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| Research Writing as a Process | |
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| Successful Online Research (new chapter to the 3/c/e)** | |
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| MLA, APA, CM, CBE, and COS Documentation Styles | |
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| Case Study: A Student Writing an MLA Research Paper | |
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| Case Study: A Student Writing an APA Research Paper | |
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| Writing Across the Curriculum | |
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| Comparing the Different Disciplines | |
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| Writing About Literature | |
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| Writing in the Social Sciences and Natural Sciences | |
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| Business Writing | |
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| Writing Under Pressure | |
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| Writing When English Is a Second Language | |
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| ESL Singulars and Plurals | |
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| ESL Articles | |
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| ESL Word Order | |
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| ESL Prepositions | |
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| ESL Gerunds, Infinitives, and Participles | |
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| ESL Modal Auxilliary Verbs | |
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| usage glossary | |
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| Terms glossary | |
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| Index | |
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| charts in tinted boxes | |